Glenn begins by giving a detailed update on the current struggle between Russia & Ukraine: which countries have backed Putin, new ways the world is standing against Russia, and what Ukrainian politicians predict may be coming next. But then, Glenn details 5 facts about the invasion that just don’t ‘make sense.’ For example, why didn’t Putin immediately destroy internet access in Ukraine to confuse both citizens and their military? Or, why did world leaders wait several days before enacting SWIFT sanctions? 'Maybe it is just me...But something feels very wrong,' Glenn says.
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GLENN: Maybe it is just me. Probably is. Maybe it's just me. But something feels very wrong, with this whole Ukrainian war thing.
It feels wrong, in the media. It feels wrong, online.
It feels wrong with Russia. It's just something isn't right.
What is it we're missing?
This is not a program, for you today, if you just want to live in a black and white world. If you just want to say, anybody who says, we shouldn't go in, and support Ukraine with troops, and bombs, and fly our planes in there, just loves Vladimir Putin, probably a spy. Probably working for Vladimir Putin.
Or the opposite. This is not the show for you. This is a show, where we need to think things through, logically, and figure out what's going on, and what is in the best interest, of not only freedom across the globe. But here in America.
We begin there, in 60 seconds.
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GLENN: All right. First, let's go through all the facts on what's happened.
Both nations HEP have -- the Chechnyans are brutal, brutal killers. Probably, the most brutal on the earth.
Saturday, Britain's Minister of Defense put out a new intelligence update on the Russian/Ukrainian War. They say Russian forces have continued their advance on Kyiv with the bulk of their forces.
And they're now 30 miles away from the city. Ukraine's ministry of interior. Has asked all people in the country, to turn off the geo location on their cell phones, as Russians are beginning to track gatherings of people.
As locations may possibly be tracked, even with Joe zero location, turned off. It is best to completely remove the battery on your cell phone, if possible, to ensure your location cannot be tracked. Ukrainian President Zelinsky seemed to hint that Turkey had closed its strait, leading many reports that they have done this. But reports by Reuters say, Turkey has not decided to yet close the straits. I believe that happened later.
Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs. Demetrie Culba (phonetic) has responded to apparent propaganda, that Ukraine has plans to launch a dirty bomb, into Russian territory.
Then YouTube blocked the Russian state news Russia Today. As well as other Russian channels to receive money from advertisements. French president, Emanuel Macron said, he has asked Leuchanka, the president of Belarus, to demand that Russian troops leave the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's nuclear deterrent forces on alert, in response to Western sanctions and rising tensions. This was yesterday.
Former U.S. defense analyst, said that Putin is escalating the conflict into the nuclear domain, in order to de-escalate.
That is topple Kyiv's regime quickly, due to the fact that his forces aren't getting the job done.
Russia's war on Ukraine, failed to provide Russia a quick and decisive victory, after four days of fighting.
Russia reportedly pulled their ally Belarus. Is that how you say it?
STU: Belarus.
GLENN: Belarus. Sorry.
In on the conflict, according to the Ukrainian news.
Yada, yada. The embassy in Moscow, for the United States, has put out an announcement, taking all U.S. nationals to leave Russia, quote, immediately.
Lindsey Graham stated that he believes that Russia may be ready to level a Ukrainian city with a nuke, and kill thousands of civilians, to break their will and our will.
He's a moron. The British Defense ministry has put out an intelligence update that says Russia's ground forces remain 30 miles north. Now, this is 24 hours later. They are still 30 miles from could he have.
Let's see. Fighting is heavy. British prime minister say that the United Kingdom would send 40 million pounds of aid to Ukraine for supplies. And it says, to the country.
Now, today, the exchange rate for the Russian ruble is now at a record high, at about 1.17 to 1.25 ruble for every 1 dollar. The central bank has also lifted the borrowing rate from 9.5 percent interest rate, to 20 percent. This is in Russia.
We are at now European U.S. DEFCON 2.
There are two DEFCON settings. One in the United States theater. Here at home.
And one in Europe. The one at home, is at DEFCON 3.
DEFCON 2, the last time America had a DEFCON 2 setting was for the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
DEFCON 2 is the highest preparedness level.
DEFCON 1 means, nuclear war is imminent, or already happening.
This puts our ground forces and all of our forces, in a be ready to engage the enemy within six hours.
DEFCON 3 is be ready to deploy in 15 minutes. Two means, six hours to engage the enemy.
So we are gearing for war in Europe.
Now, something doesn't feel right.
So Europe decided to impose the Swift sanctions. Now, the Swift sanctions. A little piece was kind of left out by everybody last week. That's kind of important.
Everyone, including me, was calling for the Swift sanction. Seems pretty easy.
Cut off their banks. We're still not cutting off their oil supply. That should be done before anything else. We are still buying Russian oil and gas, and so is Europe.
Even though this is true, gasoline is now $8 a gallon in London. Eight dollars a gallon.
Biden said last week, that he was going to do everything he could to ease the pain at the gas pump. And he's reached out to Saudi Arabia. He's reached out. He's close to a deal in Iran.
But he closed yet another avenue, for oil here in the United States this weekend.
Fact number one, that doesn't make sense. If you have something, and you are really, truly trying to help America and help the little guy, with gas prices, the last thing you do be, is open up the strategic oil reserve.
The first thing you do is open up all the pathways to pump. More oil. And refine more gas. The last thing you do is buy oil from Iran, and Russia. If they are your enemy. If you think that it's worthy of DEFCON 2, then you should probably make sure since we don't have solar paneled jets yet, that you have the fuel, in country to be able to fight a war. So fuel makes no sense. The next thing that doesn't make sense, the Swift sanctions. Is cut their banking system. And you hurt them at the bank level. Now, that sounds great. However, I learned something new, as soon as they did it. Then experts decide to say, here's what happens when we do that. Shouldn't we have known that last week? Shouldn't some of these experts been out last week, and say, here's why we're not cutting Swift. Which doesn't require internet, it's all on satellite, it's great technology, yada, yada, yada. And I'm glad he did it. But he should have been asked to do that on day one, not over the weekend.
Again, more things that don't add up, and I don't know what they add up to, but something isn't right.
